News

May 20, 2006 13:39

• International organizations condemn the attack on journalist in Azerbaijan

  The OSCE Baky office has resolutely condemned the "brutal attack" on Bakhaddin Khaziev, the chief editor of the opposition newspaper "Bizim Yol" ("Our way") and deputy chairman of the Party of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA).

May 20, 2006 13:33

• Residents of the village of Mekhtiabad in Azerbaijan are against harassment of believers

  Yesterday, on May 19, a group of residents of the village of Mekhtiabad in Azerbaijan held an action of protest in front of the mosque "Teze Pir" in which the Directorate of Caucasian Moslems (DCM) is located.

May 16, 2006 00:39

• General prosecutor's office of Azerbaijan failed to prove links of Zbigniew Brzezinski with organization "Eni Fikir"

  Connections of the well-known American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski with the members of the youth organization "Eni Fikir" ("New Thought") active in Azerbaijan have not been proved.

May 16, 2006 00:27

• Human rights activists ask Merkel to ban the governor of the Krasnodar Territory to enter Germany

  At the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group that was marked in Moscow on May, Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the NGO "Novorossisk Human Rights Committee," offered the participants of the jubilee conference to address the FGR Chancellor Ms. Merkel not to grant an entry visa to Germany for the period of three years to Alexander Tkachov, governor of the Krasnodar Territory.

May 16, 2006 00:19

• Chechen prosecutor's office initiated a torture case on materials of human rights activists

  The human rights organization "Committee Against Tortures" (CAT) reported that the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic initiated a case of application of tortures against Mikhail Vladovskiy, a citizen of Chechnya who suffered from illegal actions of the workers of law enforcement bodies.

May 15, 2006 22:52

• In Ingushetia, they continue kidnapping refugees from Chechnya

  On May 12, 2006, Biriev, Amir Abdul-Vakhidovich, commandant of MTF-1 of the town of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia, born in 1959, was kidnapped.

May 15, 2006 22:50

• Patients refuse to take social services in the Volgograd Region

  In the Volgograd Region, thousands of heavy chronic patients in need of permanent use of expensive drugs applied for refusal from social services for 2006.

May 15, 2006 22:47

• Report of human rights activists about shooting of the meeting in Dagestan published

  The public commission for investigating the meeting dispersal in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan on April 25 this year arrived to the conclusion that human rights were severely breached in the Republic.

May 15, 2006 22:45

• Commandant of refugees' camp kidnapped in Ingushetia

  On Friday, May 12, Biriev, Amir Abdul-Vakhidovich, commandant of MTF-1 of the town of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia, born in 1959, was kidnapped.

May 15, 2006 22:41

• Human rights activists ask Council of Europe to investigate messages on secret prisons in Chechnya

  The International Helsinki Federation for human rights called the Council of Europe to hold an investigation into the messages about secret prisons in Chechnya.

May 12, 2006 22:59

• Khlebnikov's case: court sanctioned Sadretdinov's arrest

  Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow issued a sanction to arrest Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, who was acquitted earlier on the case of the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine.

May 12, 2006 22:57

• Sadretdinov, acquitted on Khlebnikov's case, faces another charge

  The Moscow prosecutor's office presented a fraud charge to Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov who was acquitted on the case of the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine.

May 12, 2006 13:12

• Hearings on beating lady-journalist Kirij in North Ossetia postponed

  Today, the court of Promyshlenny District of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, has indefinitely postponed the hearing of the case on beating Olga Kirij, First Channel journalist.

May 12, 2006 08:31

• HRC "Memorial": from the second half of 2000, 3297 persons were killed in Chechnya

  According to the HRC "Memorial," starting from the second half of 2000 till today, a total of 3297 persons were killed in the territory of Chechnya.

May 10, 2006 12:50

• Human rights activists: authorities falsify data on shooting the meeting in Dagestan

  Speaking to Dagestan journalists, human rights activists stated that both the dispersal of the demonstration and the investigation of the circumstances of the case are carried out with multiple violations of the law.

May 10, 2006 12:49

• Armenia and Georgia are not among the members of the UN Council for Human Rights

  The membership of the new UN Council for Human Rights has been formed; the elections were held on May 9. 65 countries were candidates to 47 places in the Council. Armenia and Georgia failed to win the required number of votes.

May 10, 2006 12:20

• Human rights activists came to Dagestan to investigate the shooting of the meeting

  Today, on May 10, a delegation of human rights activists headed by Lev Ponomaryov, leader of the All-Russian Movement "For Human Rights," and Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," arrived to Makhachkala to go on with the investigation of the events that had taken place in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan.

May 10, 2006 12:09

• Azerbaijan elected member of the Council for Human Rights

  In the course of the second voting round, Ukraine and Azerbaijan were elected members of the Council for Human Rights.

May 10, 2006 11:46

• State Duma deputy from Chechnya surprised with the Maskhadovs' application for political shelter

  Nobody is going to prosecute the family of Aslan Maskhadov, "there were no claims to the members of his family," therefore, it is not clear, what there motives are for applying for political asylum in Finland, Ahmar Zavgaev, State Duma deputy from Chechnya and member of the commission for problems of North Caucasus told.

May 09, 2006 11:53

• In Adygea, Aslan Bezrukov, leader of the Public Association "For Justice," remains in custody

  Aslan Bezrukov, an entrepreneur and activist, well-known in Adygea, is kept in custody.